Nils John Nilsson Quotes

A learning machine is any device whose actions are influenced by past experience.

Nils John Nilsson

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• Judgment comes from experience - and experience comes from bad judgment.

  

  Walter Wriston
  • Experience
  • Bad
  • Judgment

• I taught a master class in film in France, and that was a great experience because I got a chance to study the French film culture and the French film history, so to add... just to expand myself just personally and professionally was really helpful.

  

  F. Gary Gray
  • Great
  • Experience
  • History

• The best compliment we ever got about the show was from a Korean veteran who was unable to talk about his war experience with his wife until 'M*A*S*H.' While watching the show, he was able to lean over to his wife and say, 'See, honey, that's the way it was.'

  

  Gary Burghoff
  • Experience
  • War
  • Wife

• Shooting at Coco Chanel's apartment was an unexpectedly absorbing experience. The essence of Chanel is firmly rooted there in all of her possessions, and I truly believe that her spirit and soul still inhabit the second floor.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Believe
  • Experience
  • Soul

• Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Experience
  • Play
  • Blind

• I haven't written about an immigrant experience because I haven't experienced that before and am focused on existential themes.

  

  Tao Lin
  • Experience
  • Because
  • Focused

• In my experience, 'SNL' has Lorne Michaels, who is, you know, the captain of the ship and gives the show direction and a singular focus, whereas 'MadTV' - even in my 13 episodes there - had maybe one too many cooks and was a bit more chaotic creatively.

  

  Taran Killam
  • Experience
  • Focus
  • Ship

• When they come to Europe, they are confronted by still closed borders. Thus, the concept of open borders is a very selective concept, one that is not taken seriously at all in the experience of non-Europeans.

  

  Ulrich Beck
  • Experience
  • Taken
  • Open

• Some Muslim students experience secularism as an act of aggression.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Experience
  • Act
  • Students

• I think we're the only jokeless show on television. I mean really, we have no setups and no punch lines. It's not a joke show. There are funny lines and funny moments but again the comedy is born of the human experience and awkward pauses are a great part of what it is to be human.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Great
  • Experience
  • Funny

• Whatever it is you want to do, take a job in that field. You will learn by experience and, slow and steady, you'll get it done!

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Done
  • Experience
  • Job

• Funny you mention my dinner parties when I have just suggested that inviting close friends over to share a meal with candlelight and wine at your table could be a form of religious experience for some people. To me it's a form of sacrament.

  

  Sally Quinn
  • People
  • Experience
  • Friends

• I was shooting for 'Kahaani' and 'GOW' back to back. I was in a village on work, where a man extended a paper to me. For a minute I thought he wanted another actor's autograph. I looked back and forth, but there was no one. That was quite an experience.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Work
  • Experience
  • Man

• Experience alone can teach us the best forms of construction for sailing apparatus in order that they may be of sufficient strength, very light, and most easily managed.

  

  Otto Lilienthal
  • May
  • Experience
  • Light

• We who know personal religion by experience know that there is nothing on earth to compare with the moral force exerted by it. It has demonstrated its social efficiency in our own lives.

  

  Walter Rauschenbusch
  • Experience
  • Earth
  • Moral

• You can't un-have an experience. You can deny the experience; you can process it and try to get through it, but you can't change the fact that it happened to you.

  

  Jennifer Nettles Sugarland
  • Experience

• At Grinnell College, for the first time in my life, I was in an all-white setting. It was a shocking experience.

  

  Bernice King
  • Life
  • Time
  • Experience

• War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.

  

  Desiderius Erasmus
  • Experience
  • War

• What is the good of experience if you do not reflect?

  

  Frederick the Great
  • Good
  • Experience

• Nothing can produce so great a serenity of life as a mind free from guilt and kept untainted, not only from actions, but purposes that are wicked. By this means the soul will be not only unpolluted but also undisturbed. The fountain will run clear and unsullied.

  

  Plutarch
  • Life
  • Free
  • Actions

• I want a world where everything is welcome, everything is valid, everything is acknowledged, embraced, and accepted. To me, that's a perfect world.

  

  CeeLo Green
  • World
  • Perfect

• It is disconcerting to sit with your parent and find you're turning over your future to your government, which can't manage their money.

  

  Jackie Walorski
  • Money
  • Future
  • Government

• I was always playing the Hammond Organ back to front even during the days of the Nice, going back to 1968. Really what I was doing there, was choosing notes at random and trying to make some sense of them, improvising back to front.

  

  Keith Emerson Emerson, Lake & Palmer
  • Trying
  • Nice
  • Random

• A learning machine is any device whose actions are influenced by past experience.

  

  Nils John Nilsson
  • Experience
  • Actions
  • Machine